Snog – The Kings of Hate (Psy Harmonics)

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Whilst local outfit Snog are creating controversy with their lyrical finger pointing and politically charged video clips they are also working at a freakish rate. Their album of a few months back Snog Vs The Faecal Juggernaut of Mass Culture featured 10 or so alternate versions of tracks on MP3 and this 20 track offering is their second single. Of course there’ a number of remixes of The King of Hate including Ipecac recording artists End who bizarrely go big band Louisiana swing which is pretty unexpected, whilst Thrussell’ dark tech outing Black Lung take it to a tense yet surprisingly jaunty area and the Spyweirdos mix feels like the track is trying to break through faulty equipment and a demented programmer to impose itself though a dark ambient piece – offering probably the most experimental piece on the disc. There are two new tracks Shopping Man an electro synth work out, and the suggestive Sedition is lust collaboration with Italian Industrial outfit Pankhow that earnestly harks back to the 1980′. With 20 tracks there’ plenty of ground covered, with the remainder made up of mixes of tracks originally on the album. It’s quite overwhelming, perhaps Snog are attempting to bludgeon the listener into submission by the sheer volume of their output. They need to do something pretty dramatic to face up against the Faecal Juggernaut of Mass Culture as they claim to be doing. Yet it’s not hard going at all. Snog have chosen their remixers with diversity in mind and hearing six different versions of King of Hate is actually quite fascinating. Hearing how the artists have attempted to rap Thrussell’ distinctive lyrics around their vision is also pretty damn funny. Dr Tooth’ Re-Invention highlights this superbly, where the King of Hate has become a smooth jazzy cabaret number, where Thrussell takes on the role of the entertainer, indulging in a spot of showbiz hatemongering during some of the instrumental moments. It’s classic classy stuff.

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